i just watched the trilogy, and i thought it was great. sound was good (a little over bassy at some moments) and the video quality (even on the versions that i ripped) was good as well. actually id have to say the video quality was superb at most instances, even on the discs i ripped.

now, i have never been a diehard star wars fan, so i cant comment on the differences between the original, and frankly i dont care what they are. i thought the three movies were well done, and the only issue i have is that the explosions were sometimes disproportionate. i thought that the death star explosion scenes should be some of the loudest scenes in the movie (besides the planet exploding...), but there were much louder scenes/explosions. i recall one explosion of one of those imperial walking weapons (whatever the name is... :-) ), being much louder than the death star explosions. the 2nd death star explosion was more disappointing.

i guess for true star wars fanatics, the movies delve away from the originals, but lucas wasnt trying to merely remaster the originals, he was trying to improve them. somewhere i read/saw that lucas views movies as an ongoing process, which i kind of like, because why wouldnt you want to improve on something if you could. the original is tried and tested, and im sure there were issues that he had with it, that he messed up the first time around, so now he can change it how he wants it. if you own something its yours to do what you want to it, and i appreciate the better quality video and presumably better audio.

that being said, i still thx is overrated, but at least an attempt at standardization to give a reference point to quality...

i look forward to watching the series again, this time to see how well he can build the story backwards from the originals...

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